Dr Lisa C Vanhala Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London 29/30 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9QU, Tel: 07914 044003 [email protected]

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University College London (UCL), Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy Director of Research (2018-present) Reader (now Associate Professor) in Political Science (2017-present) Senior Lecturer in Political Science (2014-2017) Lecturer in Political Science (2012-2014)

University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of and Society/Boalt Law School Visiting Scholar (2015)

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Invited Professor (2011 and 2014)

University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-legal Studies (CSLS) Associate Fellow (2011-2016) British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (2010-2011)

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow (2009)

EDUCATION

University of Oxford, Nuffield College and Department of Politics (2006-2008) DPhil in Political Science, Clarendon Fund Scholar (full-funding) Supervisor: Dr Katrin Auel Thesis title: Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization in Canada and the United Kingdom

University of Oxford, Hertford College (2003-2005) Distinction in the MPhil in Politics: European Politics and Society (the first student in the history of the programme to achieve a distinction) Supervisor: Professor R. Daniel Kelemen Thesis title: European Litigation Strategies, Equality Activists and EU Anti-Discrimination Law

McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1999-2003) First Class Honours B.A. in Political Science, Minor in French.

L’Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France (2001-2002) Diplôme du Programme International

PUBLICATIONS Book

Making Disability Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization in Canada and the United Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

 Winner of the Socio-legal Studies Association and Hart Early Career Prize 2012  Winner of the Best Book in Comparative Politics, Canadian Political Science Association 2012  Reviewed in Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Social Movement Studies

Journal special issue

 Co-editor (with Professor Chris Hilson), Symposium on Climate Change Litigation. Law & Policy 35(3) 2013.

Peer-reviewed articles

Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? Legal Opportunity Structures and Environmental Nongovernmental Organisations in the United Kingdom, France, Finland and Italy. Comparative Political Studies. 51(3), 2018, pp. 380-412.

‘Let Us Learn’: Legal Mobilization for the Rights of Young Migrants to Access Student Loans in the UK. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10(3), 2018, pp. 439–460. With Shauneen Lambe and Rachel Knowles.

Mobilizing European Law. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(9), 2018, pp. 1376-1389. With Lisa Conant, Andreas Hoffman and Dagmar Soennecken.

Shaping the Structure of Legal Opportunities: Environmental NGOs Bringing International Environmental Procedural Rights Back Home. Law & Policy. 40(1), 2018, pp. 110-127.

Process Tracing in the Study of Environmental Politics. Global Environmental Politics. 17(4), 2017, pp. 88-105.

Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in the UNFCCC Negotiations. Global Environmental Politics 16(4), 2016, pp. 111-129. With Cecilie Hestbaek.

Legal Mobilization under Neo-corporatist Governance: Environmental NGOs before the Conseil d'Etat in France (1975-2010). Journal of Law and 4(1), 2016, pp. 103-130.

The Diffusion of Disability Rights in Europe. Human Rights Quarterly 37(4), 2015, pp. 831-853.

The Comparative Politics of Courts and Climate Change. Environmental Politics 22(3), 2013, pp. 447- 474.

Climate Change Litigation: Symposium Introduction. Law & Policy 35(3), 2013, pp. 141-149.

Civil Society Organisations and the Aarhus Convention in : Judicialization from Below in Scotland? Representation 49(3), 2013. Special Issue: Role of Courts in a Democracy, pp. 309-320

Legal Opportunity Structures and the Paradox of Legal Mobilization by the Environmental Movement in the UK. Law & Society Review 46(3), 2012, pp. 523-556.

Social Movements Lashing Back: Law, Social Change and Socio-legal Backlash in Canada. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 54, 2011, pp. 113-140.

The Shift to the Rights Model of Disability in the EU and Canada. With R. Daniel Kelemen, Regional and Federal Studies 20(1), 2010, pp. 1-18.

Twenty-five Years of Disability Equality? Interpreting Disability Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada. World Review 39(1), 2010, pp. 27-47.

Disability Activists in the Supreme Court of Canada: Legal Mobilization and Accommodating Social Movements. Canadian Journal of Political Science 42(4), 2009, pp. 981-1002.

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Anti-discrimination Policy Actors and their use of Litigation Strategies: the Influence of Identity Politics. Journal of European Public Policy 16(5), 2009, pp. 738-754.

Fighting Discrimination through Litigation in the UK: The Social Model of Disability and the EU Anti- discrimination Directive. Disability and Society 21(5), 2006, pp. 551-565.

Book chapters

Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement in Miriam Smith (ed), Group Politics and Social Movements. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Legal Mobilization. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

GRANTS Major grants

European Research Council Starting Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Politics of Climate Change Loss and Damage Duration: May 1st 2018 – April 30th 2023 Amount awarded: €1 471 530 (£1 342 762)

ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Judicialization of Climate Change Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada Duration: January 1st 2014 to December 31st 2016 Amount awarded: £179 574

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Beyond Just Law and Politics: A Socio-legal Analysis of Legal Mobilisation by European Environmental Movements Duration: January 1st 2010 to December 31st 2012 Amount awarded: £245 867

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Making Disability Rights a Reality? Legal Mobilisation and Rights Activists Duration: April 1 2009 to March 31st 2010 (declined final three months of funding) Amount awarded: £79 250

Smaller grants

UCL Grand Challenge for and Equality - Response to Ageing (PI, Internal Grant) Title: Justice in Society’s Response to Ageing: Use of Law and Human Rights in the Ageing Sector Duration: 2018 Amount awarded: £2200

UCL Grand Challenge of Justice and Equality Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Barriers to justice? Legal costs and accessing the Courts Duration: 2017-2018 Amount awarded: £4000

UCL Fair Chances Growing Up Fund Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Evaluating Strategic Litigation on Children and Young People’s Rights

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Duration: 2017 Amount Awarded: £2550

UCL ‘Sea and Currents’ Fund Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Legal Mobilization in Europe Duration: 2016-2017 Amount awarded: £3450

UCL SHS Faculty Small Grant (Principal Investigator, Internal Grant) Title: Workshop on Climate Change Loss and Damage Duration: October 1st 2014 to July 31st 2016 Amount awarded: £3000

UCL CHIRP Small Grant (Co-investigator with Dr. Jeff King, UCL , Internal Grant) Title: Legal Mobilisation in the UK: A Comparative Perspective Duration: July 1st 2013 to January 31st 2014 Amount awarded: £4971

Socio-legal Studies Association Small Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: The Diffusion of Disability Rights: A Case Study of France Duration: 2012 to 2014 Amount awarded: £1700

British Academy Small Grant (Principal Investigator, External Grant) Title: Funding for Fieldwork to support British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Duration: 2011 Amount awarded: £ 6900

British Academy Conference Grant (Co-investigator with Professor Chris Hilson, University of Reading, External Grant) Title: Workshop on Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization Duration 2011-2012 Amount awarded: £ 7000

CONSULTANCY AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE (SELECTION)

 Equality and Human Rights Commission, Evaluating How Legal Work Creates Change.(2019) With Jacqui Kinghan.  The Foundation and BBC Children in Need, Learning Partner. (2018-2020) With Jacqui Kinghan and Shauneen Lambe.  The Baring Foundation, Learning Partner to the Strengthening Programme (2018- 2020). With Dr Jacqui Kinghan and NPC  Lankelly Chase and Project, Learning Partner for Project on Use of the Law to Achieve Systems Change for those facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (2017-2018). With Dr Jacqui Kinghan.  Just for Kids Law, Evaluated the Impact of Just for Kids Law’s Strategic Intervention in Tigere (2017)  The Baring Foundation, Working Paper: Examples of Successful Strategic Litigation in the UK (2016)  The Baring Foundation, Working Paper: Framework for Better Use of the Law and Human Rights- based Approaches (2016)  UCL, Convened practitioner workshop on Climate Change Litigation: An International Picture (2017)  UCL, Co-convened practitioner workshop on Use of the Law by Civil Society in the UK with Professor Jeff King.

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 European Consortium for Political Research, Co-chaired five-day Joint Sessions Workshop on European Legal Mobilization (2013).  British Academy, Co-convened workshop on Climate Change Litigation (2012).  Greenpeace International, facilitated workshop on Development of a Global Legal Strategy (2013).

INVITED TALKS (SELECTION)

OxonCourts Colloquium, Oxford University (2 November 2018) Seminar on Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? SOAS, Law, Environment and Development Centre (1 November 1 2018). London. Lecture on The Politics of Climate Change Loss and Damage. UCL, Centre for Law and Environment Annual Lecture (30 October 2018). London. Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? National Council of Voluntary Organisations Annual Campaigning Conference (10 September 2018). London. Delivered workshop on Using the Law as Part of your Campaign (with Shauneen Lambe). Doughty Street Chambers (17 May 2018). Invited Speaker on Evaluating Strategic Litigation. Oñati Institute of the Workshop on Climate Change, , Litigation and Governance (27 and 28 July 2017). Oñati, Spain. University of Barcelona, Invited Speaker at Workshop on Strategic Litigation in Europe (June 1-2 2017), Barcelona, Spain. Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) Annual Conference, Plenary Panel on Re-inventing Human Rights Research (September 1 to 3rd 2016). Utrecht, Netherlands. UNICEF UK/UCL Global Governance Institute, Roundtable on Human Rights and Climate Change (June 24th 2016). London, UK. EHESS and Institut d’Etudes Avancées, Workshop on Droit, Mobilisations, Discriminations (June 22nd 2016). Paris, France. Baring Foundation, Meeting of Trust and City Law Firm, Presentation of Making Better Use of the Law, (May 23rd 2016). London, UK. WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Workshop on Implementation and Judicial Politics: Conflict and Compliance in the EU Multi-level System (March 3rd-4th 2016). Berlin, Germany. York University DAAD Workshop on Legal Mobilization in Germany and Europe (February 13th 2015). Toronto, Canada. Yale/UNITAR Workshop on Human Rights, Climate Governance & Environmental Justice (16 November 2013) at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. Warsaw, Poland. University of Dundee, Law School Seminar (23 October 2013). Environmental NGOs and the Judicialization of Environmental Politics. Dundee. Government of France, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (9 October 2013). Disability Rights Activists and the Use of Law. Paris. UCL Environment Institute Workshop on Designing Environmental Protection: Law, Regulation and the Environment in the European Union (22 May 2012). London, UK. University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-legal Studies (declined due to teaching commitments 2013). Oñati Institute of the Sociology of Law Workshop on Law, Rights and Social Mobilization (16 and 17 June 2011). Oñati, Spain. York University, European Union Centre for Excellence Workshop on Adversarial Legalism à l’Européene (28 and 29 April 2011). Toronto, Canada. University of Oxford, Discussion Group (22 February 2011). Legal Mobilisation of UK Environmental NGOs. Oxford, UK. University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-legal Studies/Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Workshop on the Role of Courts in a Democracy (10th and 11th February 2011). Oxford, UK. University of Edinburgh, Canadian Studies Centre Seminar (25 March 2010). Disability Rights Activists in the Supreme Court of Canada. Edinburgh, UK.

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TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Teaching and supervision experience (selection):  Director of the MA in Human Rights (2013-2014)  Advanced Qualitative Methods (since 2012): Graduate course  PhD Qualitative Methods (since 2012): For the department’s PhD students.  Global Environmental Politics (since 2012): Undergraduate course  Environmental Rights: Theory, Policy and Practice (2011): Graduate course  Western European Government and Politics: Oxford. Undergraduate tutorials.

PhD Students  2018-present: Olivia Serdeczny, Climate Analytics Berlin, first supervisor  2018-present: Angelica Johansson (UCL), first supervisor  2015-present: Frances Butler (UCL), second supervisor  2010-2013: Samuel Clark (Oxford), first supervisor  2010-2015: Wuiling Cheah (Oxford), first supervisor

Membership of Learned Societies  American Political Science Association (since 2008)  Canadian Political Science Association (2008 and 2013)  Political Studies Association (2009)  Law and Society Association (since 2008)  Socio-legal Studies Association (since 2010)  International Studies Association (2009 and 2013)  International Political Science Association (since 2011)

Peer Review Activities  Editorial Board Member for Law & Policy and Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review  Member of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College (2010-2016)  Regular peer-reviewer for Cambridge University Press and Routeledge Press.  I have also reviewed for the following journals: Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, Law and Society Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Politique Européenne, Environmental Politics, Environmental Practice, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Law & Policy, Policy and Politics, Studies in Social Justice and Citizenship Studies.

Languages  Fluent in English, French and Finnish

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